From MacPorts to Homebrew

2013-05-24 80 words One minute

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Recently I changed my Mac package management tool from MacPorts to Homebrew, since Homebrew is lightweight and much faster, here is the steps I followed:

Remove MacPorts:

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sudo port -f uninstall installed
sudo rm -rf \
    /opt/local \
    /Applications/DarwinPorts \
    /Applications/MacPorts \
    /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
    /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
    /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
    /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
    /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
    /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
    ~/.macports

Install Homebrew:

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ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Homebrew installs binaries to /usr/local/bin